Canadians for Properly Built Homes

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Canadians for Properly Built Homes

Fall 2011 Vol. 5 No. 2

Greetings!
Across Canada, according to media reports and complaints directly to Canadians for Properly Built Homes (CPBH), consumers continue to experience severely inadequate consumer protection when purchasing a newly built home.
While there are good builders in Canada, consumers still have no reliable, objective means of knowing who the good builders are. Serious issues include shoddy construction, unresponsive builders, inadequate inspections by municipalities during construction, inadequate new home warranty, and concerns with the qualifications of private home inspectors.
Read on!




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Alberta


Progress for consumers: Enhanced consumer protection related to home inspections effective Sept. 1, 2011!

http://www.canadiansforproperlybuilt...aH-Ins-Reg.pdf




Ontario
Ontario Provincial Election: New Cabinet is formed on October 20 – Write to your Member of Provincial Parliament about new home quality issues!

http://www.canadiansforproperlybuilt...tionUpdate.pdf






Ontario

Call for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Investigation

http://www.canadiansforproperlybuilt...011OntHVAC.pdf





Ontario

Purchasers of newly built homes continue to struggle at the Licence Appeal Tribunal related to Tarion Warranty

http://www.canadiansforproperlybuilt...sisMay2010.pdf




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Canadians for Properly Built Homes (CPBH) is a national, not for profit corporation dedicated to healthy, safe, durable, energy efficient residential housing for Canadians, and is the only organization of its kind in Canada. Working for consumer awareness and protection, CPBH is run by a volunteer Board of Directors and is supported by a volunteer Advisory Council of industry experts and other key stakeholders. CPBH earned "partner" status with the Canadian Consumer Information Gateway (Industry Canada).
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[jzhang1]

I salute the effort for properly built homes, but it's against the tide, the quality of the new houses have only one direction to go, at least in Vancouver, when certain group of builders build $100 per square foot houses, and buyers love the price, I quit building new houses partly because of this. Even the high end houses are just bigger with more blings, the qualities are just as bad.

Now think of it, it's just like everything else in our life, only difference is it's a bigger ticket item.